D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

On Growth and Form

Herausgeber: Bonner, John Tyler

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Analysing biological processes in their mathematical and physical aspects, this historic work, first published in 1917, has also become renowned for the sheer poetry of its descriptions. It is now available for a wider readership including a foreword by one of today's great populisers of science.

Produktdetails

• Canto Classics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781107672567
• ISBN-10: 1107672562
• Artikelnr.: 40511758

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction John Tyler Bonner
1. Introductory
2. On magnitude
3. The forms of cells
4. The forms of tissues, of cell-aggregates
5. On spicules and spicular skeletons
6. The equiangular spiral
7. The shapes of horns and of teeth or tusks
8. On form and mechanical efficiency
9. On the theory of transformations, or the comparison of related forms
10. Epilogue
Index.